Back to the Roots Organic Mini Mushroom Grow Kit, Harvest Gourmet Oyster Mushrooms In 10 days, Top Gardening Gift, Holiday Gift, & Unique Gift

These are the most bizarre things you will ever see grow! When they start growing, everything looks kind of moldy like you've overwatered it and failed at the experiment.... however, the white moldy-looking bumps ARE the mushrooms!!! And they really DO double in size each day. I grow lots of things, but I've never grown mushrooms and they are amazing to see! It took about 7 days for mine to start pinning. Just when I thought I had screwed the whole thing up and it looked super weird, I realized I didn't screw it up, it was just tooo easy!! I'm posting pictures of the first day they started pinning and the VERY next day. The growth was astonishing to say the least. I have probably another week or so before they're ready to eat. If they suck, I'll come back and let you know. If I don't come back, trust me, they were very tasty. Try it and see for yourself!

These mushrooms are very beginner friendly, there is no way to mess it up. The instructions are clear and the grow time was 7 to 10 days as promised. This is a fun activity to do with your kids especially when the mushrooms bloom.

Be careful with this product. You are bringing a food source for contaminants into your home, so this product should not be purchased without a lotta research done beforehand on myco indicators and pathogens. I noticed many yellow blotches forming on the lower end of my block, what I believe to be Aspergillus flavus, a deadly mold if inhaled in large quantities. I went ahead and tossed it out due to these blotches taking over the bottom of the block. I know what mycelium piss looks like, and, those were not. I followed the instructions and read the advice on their website... Yet nature still beat nature in my case. Be careful "undoing food" with this grow kit because it may end up undoing you if you are not careful. I wish it had worked. A wonderful kit that needs a little bit of refinement, and warnings. Edit February 6 2017: My review was from last year! I have since gone through 3 mushroom kits and currently have one fruiting. I am hoping for a third harvest soon, and am just updating because I am so happy with the outcome of this kit and this company's customer service. Unfortunately, the first 3 did not work out. This company is really great though. If you are willing to put in the effort, they will work with you and send you another mushroom block, until you get a harvest! I had contamination issues up until the 4th block, which I believe is a combination of good substrate (via the company) and some methods they advised upon retrying. I'll say what I did here because I believe it makes it foolproof (as long as the substrate is good): -Make sure to put your soaked and ready block in a sterile area! -Sterility is the most imporant thing in in-home mushroom cultivation. Handy to remember when you want to harvest your mushrooms with dirty hands! Always keep it clean -Have a spray bottle handy! Make sure its clean, but these mushrooms really flourish with a good spray, especially if you are in a drier climate -Recommended by BacktotheRoots: put a big clean plastic bag around your block with plenty of holes punched in it, that is the ultimate way to keep the humidity levels at a prime 95-100% for mushroom formation -I personally soaked my block for 12 hours to give it really optimal hydration even though the box says 8. I think this is only good if you are in a drier climate, which would be any without the bag method^ I hope this helps. Definitely contact the company if you have any questions or just want some general advice. And watch their video on starting the block, it shows the proper standard procedure well. UPDATE MAY 11 2017: Changing my rating back to a one star. This company is just not a good substrate provider. I have been through a couple third party companies ordering mushroom substrate and this one is the worst of the two. The other company is extraordinary though and will send you a bomb kit for around the same price as the larger farm from Back to the Roots. They're called Fungi Perfecti. I emailed them about odd growths in the kit, and they said I had to remove the block from the bag (extra instructions) and cut off the odd growths (more extra instructions) to get a flush/fruiting of mushrooms. AND they said it will take several more weeks to grow. GREAT! They lie about the instructions and the time to flush. It's not that they won't replace the kit eventually, it's just that they lie about how easy it is to get it to grow. So, this kit just is not worth your time unless you have months on months to get whatever mushroom project you want to get started, started.

Super easy to use and grow. I got confused on position to lay box. In the picture of the ad its displayed sitting up right but didnt quite seem right to grow that way so I left on its back. Instructions were unclear. Otherwise it was easy to grow and fun to do with the kids. They also tasted delicious.

OK, first time playing with a mushroom kit. The manual was not very clear, I was wondering how to cut the plastic bag and I had to resort to videos. It would be nice if the manual contains more schematics than words. An image is worth a thousand words, they say. 2 weeks passed this way with daily watering. You can tell the mushroom tried to bud, forming 1 inch ball with protruding fingers, but never really grow into mushroom caps. They look more like coral mushrooms. At some point, it was infested with fungus eating gnats, from my house plants not from the product. So I bagged it up in a second layer of plastic bad to prevent the gnats from getting out. It also killed some of the gnats as they can fly no where and would get trapped in water droppet and drown. This is when the mushroom really start to speed up, likely because of the maintained moisture. It grow outside of the first layer of plastic bad from the manufacturer and took over the cardboard box and fruited! So that is how my kit worked eventually. Very fun.

I may now be obsessed with growing mushrooms because of this kit. It took me a while to actually get started with it, but once I did, they grew so fast! I made dinner with half of the harvest and gifted the other half to coworkers. I'm currently waiting for the second batch to start, but if it doesn't, I learned how to take spore samples now. This kit sent me down a rabbit hole. Dinner was delicious and I'm having a great time! 🙌 If anyone is curious about it, I think they'd make a great meat alternative for vegans. They smelled like I was cooking meat and honestly tasted meaty. I'm excited for more healthy meals. These were super easy to grow and they grow so big so fast! I made a short video of the process and I think I'd love to do a Timelapse next time.

1st fruit was great second not so much.

Die Pilze sind super gewachsen! Nur leider schon in seiner Verpackung, bevor das Paket überhaupt ankam. Der Karton war beschädigt und der Inhalt vergammelt.

Bad quality product. The substrate was not sterilised properly and it had worm eggs. They hatched and ruined the entire batch. Disgusting, waste of money

Super easy, fun to watch grow and then eat. Kids loved it!

Exactly 11days ago, my organic oyster mushroom box arrived (see 1st photo). Soaked it in a water overnight and waiting game begins. After 5 days I began seeing those tiny heads. Then, they just grow a millimeter per hour. Last few photos taken today the 24th of October. 10days of total waiting to harvest time. It worked well with my grow lights. Ready to hit the pan for a stir-fry Chicken with Mushrooms 😉

I bought this item and I did the same thing in the instruction and this is like the fourth week for it drawing nothing happened. I don’t recommend it for anyone.